The complete online text of April Hopes by William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...

William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...

William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...

SEATTLE -- In his second game in the lineup last season, Trot Nixon rifled a monster of a home run to right field, a shot that clanged off the scoreboard at Kansas City's Kauffman Stadium. In his second game of THIS season,...

New Hope executive director Frank Heron plans to end his tenure as the organization's leader in April after nearly three years in the post. Although the experience has been fulfilling, Heron, who has viewed himself as "an interim person," said that he always...